Pad for ironing and pressing machines



May 10, 1927.

1,628,147 a. c. HOUCK PAD FOR IRONING AND PRES$ING MACHINES Filed Feb.14, 1923 INVENTOR.

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Patented May 10, 1927. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, GEORGE C. HOUCK, F SYRACUSE. NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS.TO THE PROSPERITY COMPANY, INC, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OFNEW YORK.

This invention relates to pads for ironing and pressing machines,mangles etc., and has for its object a particularly simple and.cflicient means for attaching the outer covering I of cloth to theunder side of the pad, which means does not project beyond the plane ofthe lower side of the pad, so that the pad can rest on a flat bedwithout forming de pressions in the bed.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations andconstructions hereinafter set In describing this invention, referenceishad to the accompanying drawings, 1n which like characters designatecorrespondlng parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a pad applied to the lower buck or bed of apressing machine.

Figure 2 is an inverted plan view, partly broken away, of the pad.

Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view on line 3-3, Fig. 2.

This pad comprises a means on the bottom side thereof to which themargin of the cloth covers can be readily attached. and dctached, suchmeans being arranged approximately in the plane of the bottom side ofthe pad, so that the pad will rest flatwise and evenly on the face ofthe bed or buck or other support.

The body of the pad here illustrated comprises a plurality of springssecured to the base 2, and a layer 3 of felt or padding overlying thesprings. 'A covering 4 of cloth overlies the felt padding.

The base 2 is here shown as a sheet metal plate, the springs beingsecured at their lower ends to the plate by rivets 5. base rests on theheads 6 of these rivets except where the heads are covered by gin of thecovering cloth 4.

The means by which the covering at may be attached, to, and detachedfrom, the base plate, comprises a plurality of prongs 7 arranged aroundthe margin of the plate and with their points directed inwardly towardthe center or the median line of'thc plate, these prongs extendingin-a'dire'ct-ion parallel to the plane of the outer face of the plateand being located in, or-near such plane of the outer face of the plate.

In the illustrated embodiment of my invention, the pad is shown asmounted on PAD FOR IRONING AND PRESSING MACHINES.

Application filed February 14, 1923. Serial No. 618,999.

the flat horizontal face of the lower buck 8 punching or distorting theplate inwardly at forth and claimed. are formed.

plate 2 and caught on intervals. The prongs are preferably struck fromthe metal from which the depressions the covering along is folded underthe the prongs 7 along one margin of the plate 2. Then the covering isstretched over the body of the pad and the opposite margin of coveringcaught on the adjacent prongs of the base.

for the prongs such as to recelve the prongs.

suitable manner, and .as

ofthe buck 8.

What I claim is:

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the marthe base plate, and the caught on,said prongs.

GEORGE c. HOUOK.

Owing to the openings 9 or depression 10, the covering can readily behooked over the prongs, and owing to the arrangement of the prongs, thepad lies fiatwise on the bed or buck without special provision beingmade grooves in thebuck The pad may be held on the buck 8 in any hereshown, it is secured to the buck 8 by elastic members, as coiled springs11 extending crosswise of the under side of the pad near its ends, thesesprings 11 being looped around the ends of the buck. The ends of thesprings are secured to lugs 12 depending from the margin pad and lappingthe edge faces of the A pad forironing and pressing machines, comprisinga base plate, padding mounted on the base plate, having a covering forthe padding, the base plate being formed with depressions at its lowerface, and prongs extending across the depressions and inwardly towardthe center of the plate, the prongs being located substantially in theplane of covering having its margin folded under the base plate and Ihave hereunto acusc, 1n the county

